Britain’s Most Secretive Black Ops Unit DECLASSIFIED!

In this video we'll take a closer look at Britain's Special Reconnaissance Regiment (SRR), a unit shrouded in even greater secrecy than the Special Air Service (SAS) and Special Boat Service (SBS).

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Voiceover by: Marty Ravenel

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00:00 - Introduction
00:20 - Origins
01:31 - Purpose
02:28 - Elite Training
03:51 - Recruitment
04:03 - Stockwell Incident
05:12 - Covert Missions
05:43 - Operation Ilois
07:49 - Libyan Mission
08:05 - SRR Ambushed
08:29 - Outro

[migo]

Wow UK’s special reconnaissance regiment finally got recognized.

[OldhamSteve]

Attended many courses at RAF Hereford back in the 80’s. Came across the SAS lads on many occasions. A good bunch of highly trained, well motivated and intelligent lads. They’ve also got a great sense of humour. Happy days.

[StatesideHeathen]

The Gurkhas are fucking hardcore! They did a lot of base security for our( U.S Military) F.O.Bs/ Combat outposts. Fierce fighters, the Taliban don't have SHIT on them. Shout out to the Gurkhas! 🤘

[mikeyoung]

My Father served in the Second World War in 44th recce regiment. He saw action in the desert at the battle of El Alamein. He went on to the invasion of Italy where he was wounded. Afterwards he fought at the battle of Monte Cassino.

They operated autonomously probing the German lines to locate the weak points.

There is a book about them called " only the enemy in front"

[jamesmccrindle]

There’s a excellent book title the “Det”a first hand account of selection training and operations in NI. The author Andy macnab also served with them you can read about it in “immediate action”also Duncan Falconer from SBS who tells of his time in the book “First into Action”. I recommend both for a good understanding of the British SF community.

[Darren-slrp]

The UKs most secret spec ops unit is the one none of us have heard about.

[ned_]

Having the incredible Gurkha's join them is just about your worst nightmare come true! Huge respect to them. 🙏

[mikewinston]

I attended the five day pre selection (selection was 8 weeks commencing at Hightown, Lancashire) for 14 Int & Sy in 1992 at the Int Centre in Ashford Kent. 48 of us started, including four women and an RAF Flight Sergeant; only eight finished the five days; only one finished the eight weeks; not me 🤣. We were known as the Force Research Unit (FRU); part of 14 int. The Det was a title that drifted in and out of use. The poor RAF chap departed on day one of the pre. Sadly, his boss at RAF Bruggen in Germany failed to brief him correctly; he actually thought it was all about research! As for ‘Andy McNab’, the less said the better re veracity and sagacity, although he produces first class fiction I’m informed.

[theactualjetgeek]

There is without a doubt that E Squadron is the most secretive BO Unit to exist. But i'm glad the SRR is getting the recognition they deserve.

[arthurbrumagem]

Unexpectedly ambushed? Yeah because all ambushes are expected

[thewesties]

The FRU (Force reconnaissance Unit) was the start of this unit. They conducted reconnaissance on the IRA in Northern Ireland for 25 years.

[MDR-hnyz]

The book “The Operators” by James Rennie is a pretty good book about 14 Intelligence Co. in Northern Ireland. Pretty wild.

[opler]

“We sleep soundly in our beds because rough men stand ready in the night to visit violence on those who would do us harm.”
― Winston Churchill...Possibly.

[mrxcx]

I must be behind on info.. never heard of the SRR, glad I have now.

[dylanjohns]

I wouldn’t really say the SRR are Britains most secretive black ops unit. For one, they aren’t even black ops. Somebody who’s a black ops operator normally works for a government and are basically part of a paramilitary organisation. The only black ops type that the British has that we know of are called E-squadron who are a mix of all UKSF working primarily for MI6.

[arthurbrumagem]

Seems reasonable that the group is relatively small in size as if too large it is more recognizable and would be perceived as easy to get into if larger

[daveybaby]

Srr are badass pure and simple…people like them make mortals like me sleep well on a night….

[rialobran]

I'd hazard a guess the 50 UK special forces supposedly in Ukraine will contain a good few SRR.

[joesgotya]

This is not accurate at all. Those old ad-hoc surveillance programs like the MRF or 14 Det didn’t just magically become the SRR. They’re completely different organizations with different charters, training, selection and roles. The MRF and Det were never designed or trained for global capacity operations that SAS or SBS did. They were specifically built for the NI conflict where they employed surveillance and human intelligence efforts on the IRA that were as old as the SOE of WW2. The actual mechanism that influenced the creation of the SRR and 18th Signals Reg in 2005-06 came from looking at the American ISA “Intelligence Support Activity” created by Col. Jerry King in 1981. This was the 1st intelligence unit of its kind that was full time dedicated to special operations intelligence support. Nothing about the ISA was ad-hoc which how UK SF received their support for decades.

Former British Intelligence Corp Officer Micheal Smith served on one these ad hoc intelligence teams attached with 22 SAS in Oman in the 70s and wrote a book that outlays everything I’m saying. Quote - *The extent of the ISAs success was perhaps most vividly shown when the UK Directorete of Special Forces decided to reverse the pretense of a shared history and follow the American lead. In 2005 it set up its own new units, the Special Reconnaissance Regiment and the 18th Signals Regiment in a fitting tribute to the ISAs success* Killer Elite pgs VII introduction

[Jimiriffman]

I worked with the SRR in 2007 for a while, cool guys with shaggy hair and beards and not a uniform in sight. Every day we got our op orders/briefings from a guy only known as "big al", i learned after finishing the attachment that he was their Sgt Major lol